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Details for Part 2, Autumn 2024

Class times for Part 2: 6.30 to 8 pm Wednesdays 17, 24 April & 1, 8, 15, 22 May

Venue: Multi-Purpose Room 2, Kathleen Syme Centre, 251 Faraday St, Carlton (Locked out? Call Bernie’s mob: 04 0793 8452)

Zoom link (the same for Part 1 & 2)| Dial-in for internet disruption: +61 2 8015 6011 | Meeting ID: 830 7369 6112 | Passcode: 573878

Course outline and weekly readings with options for access to texts

Meditations: Recommenations for meditation on consiousness and experience. These may assist understanding of the mystical passages in the Republic:

  • Unguided: sit | close eyes | passively pay attention to breathing | let thoughts subside | passively listen to any sounds as they are heard, in themselves, without consideration for their source | when attention is distracted, come back to breathing | for 20mins+
  • Guide: there are many choices in many tradition, including on youtube. Here is one using the writings of a non-aligned Rumanian mystic, Ilie Cioara.

Catch-up class recordings

Go to the YouTube playlist for all recordings or follow the links below

1.1 What is Justice?

Session 1.1 | What is justice? | pages 327 to 336a
Books to be read for Part 1 are in black type.

1.2 Justice as a Social Construct

Session 1.2 | Justice as a social construct | pages 336b – 367e

1.3 Education and the Arts in the Just Society

Session 1.3 | Education and the Arts in the Just Society | 368a – 412a & Bk 10, 595 – 608b

1.4 Tripartite Soul

Session 1.4 | The Guardians of the Good and the tripartite soul | 412a – 445e

1.5 Dissolving the Family

Session 1.5 | Dissolving the family | 449a – 471c

1.6 The devolution of polity towards tyranny

Session 1.6 | The devolution of polity towards tyranny | 543a (Bk 8) – 592b

Part 2

2.1 Why philosophers are not valued

Session 2.1 | Why philosophers are not valued | 471 – 502c

Slides for Week 2.1 in PDF

2.2 The ultimate object of education

Session 2.2 | The ultimate object of education | 502c – 511e

Slides for Week 2.2 in PDF

2.3 Sunlight, Line and Cave

Slides for Week 2.3

Session 2.3 | Enlightenment in the Allegory of the Cave | 514 – 521c

Week 2.4

Slides for Week 2.4 in PDF

The video recording for this week was accidently stopped, so there are two videos.

Session 2.4 (VIDEO 1) | The philosophical education: mathematics | 521c – 531c
Session 2.4 (VIDEO 2) | The philosophical education: mathematics | 521c – 531c

Week 2.5

Slides in PDF

Session 2.5 | The philosophical education: dialectic | 531d – 541b

Week 2.6

Slides in PDF: Myth of Er by Effie Pathimos

Notes on Platonism & Buddhism

Session 2.6 | The immortality of the soul and the myth of Er | 608c – 621d